Spring in Chicago: A visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden

It’s been a rough couple of weather months. I was so, so naive to think Chicago would start warming up in March. Today though, Spring finally seemed to arrive. A friend of mine summed it up best when she tweeted: “Damn, Chicago. It’s like your heart started beating again today.”

While today’s high temp barely hit 50 degrees, the flowers were blooming and trees were budding at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

We didn’t get a chance to see the corpse flower (a titan arum plant native to Indonesia) named “Spike” that recently opened. We did see this Bonsai tree that’s thought to be 400-600 years old.